illaqueate

verb

1. To grab; seize, or catch.

   archaic

   Let not the surpassing eloquence of Taylor dazzle you, nor his scholastic retiary versatility of logic illaqueate your good sense.

   c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Jeremy Taylor

Where it comes from

First attested in 1548; borrowed from Latin illaqueātus, perfect passive participle of illaqueō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from in- (“in”) + laqueō (“to insnare”), from laqueus (“a noose, snare”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry illaqueate (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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